THE FOUNDATION: LAW

“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” —James Wilson

INSIGHT

“The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life.” —William Wordsworth

“The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.” —John Quincy Adams

“We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear—unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called ‘the insolence of elected persons’ —in a word, free men.” —Gerald Johnson

“I have looked politics and movies both over, and while they have much in common, I believe politics is the most common. So I will stay with the movies.” —Will Rogers

UPRIGHT

“The American people are not racists. They don’t hate immigrants. They believe in the rule of law…” —Maggie Gallagher ++ “Why am I so suspicious about the fealty of the reformers to real border control? In part because of the ridiculous debate over the building of a fence. Despite the success of the border barrier in the San Diego area, it appears to be very important that this success not be repeated.” —Charles Krauthammer

“What is at risk is not the climate but freedom. I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning.” —Czech president Vaclav Klaus

“The Democrats, flush from their 2006 election gains, took over Congress in January, promising to end the legislative stalemate and pass a sweeping agenda for reform. Nearly six months later, they have backpedaled on their promises of reform; they’ve made little progress on major legislation; their job-approval ratings have taken a nosedive; and there’s talk for the first time that House Democrats could lose seats to the Republicans in 2008.” —Donald Lambro

“If you are looking for a true political leader, you can just pass right over Harry Reid. He is perfectly willing to give aid and comfort to the enemy—likely putting American soldiers at greater risk by his comments—for political gain.” —Rich Galen

“I don’t want to turn the keys of this country over to Hillary Clinton or anyone else on that side of the aisle, quite frankly. I think with me [in the race], we wouldn’t have to do that.” —Fred Thompson

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Back in 1942, in response to a shortage of agriculture workers caused by World War II, Congress authorized the Bracero guest-worker program. For the next two decades, Mexican workers were permitted to enter the U.S. on a temporary basis to fill gaps in the labor market…[I]llegal border crossings subsequently plummeted. Between 1953 and 1959 they fell by some 95%… In 1960, mainly in response to complaints from labor unions, the program was scaled back and eventually phased out. But there’s no reason Congress can’t put in place a Bracero- like program with proper worker protections and receive a similar result. A guest-worker program for newcomers wouldn’t solve the problem of the 12 million illegal aliens already here, but it would help ensure that our illegal population doesn’t continue to grow.” —The Wall Street Journal

THE NOBLE TRADITION OF OUR FOUNDERS…

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DEZINFORMATSIA

Getting it backwards: “I think it’s madness, but I think it’s a madness that comes as a result of the talk-show people forcing this issue in such a way as to make it appear that the bad guy is an immigrant who is operating in the best traditions of American sacrifice and strife to improve his or her family.” —NPR’s Juan Willams on opposition to illegal immigration

Worn out class-warfare rhetoric: “[Ronald Reagan] was a social Darwinist… I think that the poor did not prosper under him at all.” —Helen Thomas, according to NBC’s Tim Russert, “the dean of White House reporters”

Belly laugh of the week: “Even critics of [Dan] Rather would have to admit he has always stood, firmly and stubbornly, for hard news over fluff and for integrity in the newsroom.” —The Washington Post’s TV critic Tom Shales

This week’s “Non Compos Mentis” Award: “Installed in Washington, Hillary morphed into a comic-book villain for her detractors—a man-eating feminist, they claimed, who allegedly threw lamps at her husband, communed psychically with Eleanor Roosevelt and lit a White House Christmas tree adorned with sex toys. The narrative of depravity—a tissue of inventions by conservatives—was often hard to follow.” —Newsweek’s Jonathan Darman and Mark Hosenball on some ideas that originated with liberals, not conservatives

This week’s “Quid Pro Homo” Award: “Be honest. Who would you rather share a foxhole with: a gay soldier or Mitt Romney? A gay soldier, of course. In a dicey situation like that, you need someone steadfast who knows who he is and what he believes, even if he’s not allowed to say it out loud.” —The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd

Newspulper Headlines: So Global Warming Diminishes Hurricanes?: “Storm Felled by Fever” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer

So Much for Global Warming!: “Poll Finds Most of World Is Cool With China Catching Up With U.S. ” —WorldTribune.com

Breaking News From 1800: “Group Announces Support for Jefferson” —Associated Press

News You Can Use: “Outdoors: Don’t Trash Carp, Hook ‘Em With an ‘Ugly Bugger”’ —Idaho Statesman (Boise)

Bottom Stories of the Day: “From Sidelines, Kerry Rips GOP Field Over Foreign Policy” —Boston Globe ++ “Oil Companies, Bush Blamed” —Hartford (CT) Courant (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

Bad bill coming back: “I think that this issue [of illegal immigration] is sort of the defining issue for our country… It’s the Left and Right that are so vicious in terms of opposition.” —Sen. Teddy Kennedy ++ More than word play: “We will hopefully bring to final passage a comprehensive bill that will strengthen our border security and bring 12 million undocumented Americans out of the shadows.” —Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid with a new term for illegal aliens ++ Friendly fire: “Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.” —Sen. Trent Lott, rumored Republican leader

Don’t know nothin’: “We’re now back up to 1,000 attacks a day in Iraq. And for someone, whether it’s General Petraeus or anyone else, to say things are great in Baghdad isn’t in touch with what’s going on in Baghdad, even though he’s there and I’m not.” —Harry Reid

Socialist rhetoric: “[T]he benefits from the Bush tax cuts have gone disproportionately to a very small percentage of Americans. And 10 percent of Americans have realized about 50 percent of the increase in wealth that has happened in this country in the last six years.” —comrade Hilrya Rodhamovich Clintonov

Too little, too late: “If the Democrats want to test us, that’s why they give the president the veto. I’m looking forward to vetoing excessive spending, and I’m looking forward to having the United States Congress support my veto.” —President George W. Bush

VILLAGE IDIOTS

Finger pointing: “You might have prevented this war. You, this network, the other networks. Those 3,500 soldiers that are dead today may not have had to die had our news media done its job.” —“documentary” maker Michael Moore to ABC’s “Good Morning America” crew

Wishful thinking as policy: “Keep in mind we could stop that war in Iraq now by not providing any funding. But what I intend to do is to be a president who helps to reshape the world for peace—to work with all the leaders of the world in getting rid of all nuclear weapons, rejecting policies that create war as an instrument of diplomacy, making sure that we cause the nations of the world to come together…” —rumored presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich **We’re sure all those other countries will go right along with you, Dennis.

“I have filed papers with the New York City Board of Elections to change my status as a voter and register as unaffiliated with any political party. Although my plans for the future haven’t changed, I believe this brings my affiliation into alignment with how I have led and will continue to lead [New York] City.” —NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg fueling speculation he may enter the presidential race as an independent

Blame America first: “This effort to divide Palestinians into two peoples now is a step in the wrong direction. All efforts of the international community should be to reconcile the two, but there’s no effort from the outside to bring the two together.” —Jimmy Carter

SHORT CUTS

“President Bush was so buoyed by the warm reception he was given in Albania that he immediately gave all 3 million Albanians American citizenship, provided they learn Spanish. The offer was withdrawn when Bush found out most Albanians haven’t broken any U.S. laws.” —Ann Coulter ++ “The same people who say that government is a mighty power for good that can extinguish every cigarette butt and detoxify every cheeseburger and even change the very climate of the planet back to some Edenic state so that the water that falleth from heaven will land as ice and snow, and polar bears on distant continents will frolic as they did in days of yore, the very same people say: Building a border fence? Enforcing deportation orders? Can’t be done, old boy. Pie-in-the-sky.” —Mark Steyn

“I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.” —Fred Thompson

“Hillary Clinton has launched a new website where people can get all the latest Hillary news. In a related story, John Edwards has launched a new website where people can order his secret blend of shampoos and conditioners.” —Conan O’Brien

David Letterman: “Top Little-Known Facts About Mitt Romney”: Name is short for “Mitzi”; Starts each day by wrasslin’ a gator; Made his fortune selling counterfeit Prada handbags; Won NRA endorsement by vowing to shoot twice as many old guys as Cheney; Once defeated Chuck Liddell for Ultimate Fighting Championship title; Is the model on packages of Jockey underpants; Would be the first Mitt in the White House since Mitt Quincy Adams.

Jay Leno: All of the candidates have released their financial statements. Turns out Bill Clinton made $10 million from speaking engagements last year. See that sounds glamorous, but imagine all those nights in a hotel room, Hillary half-way across the country, him sitting there by himself all lonely. … According to a new poll, Hillary’s lead in the polls is due to her support by women. She’s bringing in the female vote. And Bill is attracting “the other woman” vote. … Here’s the latest in the John Edwards campaign. It turns out, yes, there are two Americas and neither one of them is voting for him. … A judge has turned down Scooter Libby’s request to delay his prison term. In fact, the judge gave him an extra three months just for having that stupid name, Scooter. … There’s a huge problem with the Russian space station. The computers failed. The whole computer system went down. Pretty scary. But they’re hoping they can fix the problem and call tech support when they fly over India. … Actually, two thirds of it has been fixed, although the system that controls oxygen manufacture had been down for two days. And you know what happens when astronauts don’t get enough oxygen? They drive 900 miles in a diaper to kidnap other astronauts. … According to a new study 30 percent of Cubans are overweight. The other 70 percent are still in Cuba…. Dan Rather came out swinging this week. He said that CBS and Katie Couric are tarting up the news. Tarting up the news? As opposed to Dan, who just made up the news.

Veritas vos Liberabit—Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot’s editors and staff. (Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families—especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who have died in defense of American liberty, while prosecuting the war with Jihadistan.)